Have you ever felt the urge to escape it all, run off to Norway and hole up in a converted red fisherman's cottage?

Astronomers and visualization specialists at NASA have just released this unprecedented, 3-dimensional, fly-through view of the Orion Nebula, a nearby star-forming region.

Watch the Halifax Explosion re-created 100 years later in 360-degree animation

For Ottawa photographer Louise Radmore, it was the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to follow the people of the Kazakh clan of Mongolia as they travelled across the Altai Mountains.

You might see a sun pillar - or light pillar - extending upward (or downward) from a bright light source. They're caused by ice crystals drifting in Earth's air.

Sun pillars, or light pillars, are shafts of light extending from the sun or other bright light source. They're caused by ice crystals drifting in Earth's air.

The highly modified feathers of a male bird of paradise absorb 99.95 percent of light, creating an astonishingly dark black.

It's quite a time for weird weather, and it doesn't get much weirder than snow falling in one of the hottest places in the world.

Weather and climate-related disasters cost the United States a record $306 billion in 2017, the third-warmest year on record, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Monday.

Sometime in March, a streak of fire will cross the sky as the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 falls out of orbit. But where it will fall, or how much of it will fall, nobody quite knows.

Temperatures on a mountain in New Hampshire could fall so low you risk getting frostbite in a couple of minutes.

2018 marks the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the most powerful and important bird-protection law ever passed. In honor of this milestone, National Geographic, the National Audubon Society, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and BirdLife I ...

A photographer captures the paths that birds make across the sky.

Journalist Michael Wolff's new "front row" account of Trump presidency is causing controversy.

While killing insects would seem to be the best way of controlling the diseases they spread, some scientists are releasing more of the biting bug, re-engineered to stall epidemics.

Sales of electric and hybrid cars exceeded half of new registrations in Norway in 2017, a record aided by generous subsidies that extended the Nordic nation's lead in a shift from fossil-fuel engines, data showed on Wednesday.

Several homeless men and a snowmobiler are among those who have perished in the Arctic blast.

Qi Guangpu of China performs an aerial in the Men's Aerials training during the FIS Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain.

People celebrate the new year during a countdown event at Yongdingmen Gate in Beijing.

Photographers help a Rohingya refugee to come out of Nad River as they cross the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Palong Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.